The UK must promote itself as a “springboard to global growth“ to companies both at home and abroad, according to Danny Lopez, managing director of marketing at UK Trade and Investment.
The knowledge and expertise of civil servants working within delivery agencies has to be utilised if policies are to be successful, a panel of chief executives has said.
Cleveland urges staff ‘to keep raising the bar’
In 'Corporate Responsibility - changing fashion or fashioning change?',
Civil Service innovation and 'entrepreneurial flair' were put under the microscope in the QEII Conference centre on Tuesday.
Civil Service West Midlands, to be launched this Thursday in Birmingham, promises to be a ground-breaking pilot scheme aimed at making the civil service “the employer of choice in the West Midlands“.
The Civil Service is facing more challenges than ever before in terms of its reform agenda and increasing demands for high performance.
The winners of the Civil Service Leadership Award, the peace process team at the Northern Ireland Office, were engaged in “the ultimate cross-cutting project“ according to the prime minister's security advisor at the Cabinet Office.
On the day that the government's new border organisation officially came to being, the woman in charge has outlined the successes already achieved and the challenges ahead.
It was US comedian Jerry Seinfeld who claimed people are more afraid of speaking in public than they are of death: “This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the coffin than doing the eulogy!“
Civil servants and ministers should always seek to work as a team, according to DFID minister Gillian Merron.
The Civil Service diversity champion has urged Whitehall departments to “re-double their efforts“ to make government a more diverse organisation.
Ambitious public servants received nuggets of career advice from Civil Service Commissioners at Civil Service Live, including First Commissioner Janet Paraskeva.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), say the taxpayer has reaped the benefits of their joined up thinking.
The government needs to pay more attention to the mass of knowledge held by front line staff and help release their innovative ideas, a minister has said.
Inspirational leadership will be the fulcrum on which any successful department or team will be built, director general of leadership and people strategy Gill Rider has explained.
Officials with ideas about how the Civil Service should change in order that they can do their jobs better have been told to send them to the Cabinet Office.
Delivering '21st century public services' comes down to three core objectives, according to Lesley Strathie, the chief executive of Jobcentre Plus.
From exception to rule
We live in an increasingly diverse society and yet in the Civil Service, a respected forward thinking employer, Muslims are still under represented. How can this be redressed?
What is Parliament actually like? Those of us who don't work there all have our preconceptions and misconceptions.
Olympic minister Tessa Jowell urged delegates at Civil Service Live to embrace the “once in a lifetime opportunity“ offered by the 2012 Olympics
